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This thesis researches the representation of women in the Victorian Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine to understand if the magazine followed feminist developments. Women were predominantly represented as wives in the issues from 1856, as it was their natural role, but slight change occurred a year later. In the issues from 1857 women were represented as in need of other employment besides being a wife. The impossibility of all women becoming wives and the reliance of these women on the care of men called for a better educational system. When women were more effectively educated in a profession they were no longer a burden and they would become more suited partners for men. The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine fails to adopt feminism completely, but agrees with the ambiguous female character that the Victorian era produced.